ALBUQUERQUE , N.M. (AP) State authorities are investigating whether the New Mexico State Police has a mole leaking word on illegal hunting investigations to game poachers in northern New Mexico. A Game and Fish Department officer's search warrant affidavit says the officer was able to corroborate most of the information in an anonymous posting on the department's “Operation Game Thief'' website.
That posting included a claim that elk and deer poachers were tipped off by a friend in the State Police. However, the department says an investigation hasn't yet shown that a State Police employee was involved.
State Police Chief Pete Kassetas told the Albuquerque Journal that he's taking the tip seriously and considers it disturbing. He says so far there's no confirmation.
The two people named in the affidavit haven't been charged.
